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IF-Related Events

Storytelling in the world of interactive fiction

(Friday, March 26th, 5:30pm-6:30pm, Wyvern Theatre)

Text adventures have been quietly experimenting with narrative gaming for thirty years. Five authors from the amateur interactive fiction community discuss the design ideas in their games -- reordered storylines, unreliable narrators, deeply responsive NPCs -- and how they apply to other kinds of games. (Rob Wheeler (mod.), Robb Sherwin, Aaron Reed, Emily Short, Andrew Plotkin)

The current plan: the main GET LAMP episode at 9:30, followed by a panel on stage of people interviewed for the film, and then some showings of a few more features of the DVD, including the Infocom and Bedquilt episodes. (Hosted by Jason Scott. Panel: Brian Moriarty, Andrew Plotkin, others)

Write a short IF game in two hours! Actually, we'll give you until 10pm, so you attend can the rest of the convention too. Work alone or in groups. The game theme will be a surprise. (Hosted by Dave Cornelson)

Emily Short and Jeremy Freese present IF at MIT. (Purple Blurb hosted by Nick Montfort.)

IF Fans Attending

(People who have said they're attending at least some of the con)

NOTE: Is there a way we can turn this into a table and find out exactly when people are arriving and departing? It would also be good to create a mailing list to communicate with people as most people will have smart phones. People could offer phone numbers for texting as well, but not on the wiki page of course. That would have to be a private document. Not sure how that could work as some people are very private.

Sean Huxter -- hope to attend the Storytelling talk, definitely attending the Get Lamp premier, and will be around most of PAX on Fri, Sat, Sun. (Will be bringing with me a number of Purple Datacube feelies from Piracy 2.0 if anyone wants one.

The IF Suite

I (zarf) have reserved a large suite on the top floor of the Back Bay Hilton. (Room number TBA.) We have the room from Thursday afternoon until Monday morning, although I currently plan to clear out on Sunday evening.

The plan is to have the door open through Friday, Saturday, and some of Sunday. It will be both a rendezvous/hangout point for mudders and IF community folks, and a publicity center for newcomers interested in IF.

Plans

(Final scheduling details will have to wait until we have a PAX event schedule. Hopefully that won't be too late in February...)

The room will be open noon to midnight Friday, noon to midnight Saturday, noon to (4 pm?) Sunday.